Prepaid Phones

While many of us are accustomed to traditional contract-based phones and plans, more and more users are adopting prepaid phone plans instead. Where prepaid phones used to be only a select few with slim features, now virtually any device can be used on a prepaid phone plan across any number of standard carriers. The benefits are many, and may save you a great deal of money of the course of what a standard contract would run. Considering the fact that you can purchase your own device and bring it to nearly any carrier opens a great set of options for users.

Prepaid phones are a plenty — and while they still vary slightly between carriers — include many of the top devices on the market. Big carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all offer devices that include the likes of the HTC One (M8), Samsung Galaxy S5, iPhone 5s, and Lumia 928. No matter which carrier you plan to use, your more than likely to find a device you'll love to go along with it. Prepaid phones and plans are a great way to have more "freedom" than standard plans, meaning there are more reasons now than ever before to give prepaid phones a second look.

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The Sprint Prepaid brand will now have three new monthly plans, all of which offer its customers unlimited talk and text. The cheapest is now priced at $35 a month with 1 GB of data, followed by $45 a month with 3 GB of data and $55 a month for 6 GB of data.
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Verizon prepaid users are getting a bump in data to start the year. Those who are on the $45 plan and previously allotted just 500MB, now receive double the data at a full 1GB. As if that's not enough, enrolling in Verizon's Auto Pay will net you another 500MB of data. The plan also includes...

T-Mobile launched a new set of Simply Prepaid plans today, leaving many of us worried that the Un-carrier was messing with a good thing. Fortunately for the value-conscious customers out there, T-Mobile confirmed to us that the new Simply Prepaid plans are not replacing the current set of Simple...

New Simply Prepaid plans feel like a strategy to upsell to postpaid, not offer the best value to customers
I've always been a fan of the way T-Mobile has done prepaid, but with today's announcement of its new Simply Prepaid plans I'm worried that the Un-carrier is going in the wrong direction....

Prepaid plans just keep getting better, even as postpaid offerings get more enticing
I wrote all the way back in September 2012 of the benefits of considering prepaid service over more traditional postpaid cell phone plan offerings. Now, over two years later, things just keep getting better for...

We’re assembling the absolute best phones available on Straight Talk so you can figure out which you want to grab as quickly as possible. You’ll find everything from high-end to affordable prepaid phones here.

With kids back in school and budgets tight, prepaid carriers are often the way to go for anyone with a smartphone. Instead of paying your monthly bill after having used your wireless service, you pay beforehand for a set bucket of data.
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The Sprint Prepaid brand will now have three new monthly plans, all of which offer its customers unlimited talk and text. The cheapest is now priced at $35 a month with 1 GB of data, followed by $45 a month with 3 GB of data and $55 a month for 6 GB of data.
Catch up on more prepaid phone news...

Sprint prepaid subsidiary Boost Mobile is running a promotion from September 3 to November 3 that will give customers discounted plans with double the usual data. As long as customers sign up during this period and keep their accounts active, then they can keep their promotional plan. Now, with a...

T-Mobile has announced today that it has overtaken Sprint to be the largest prepaid service provider in the U.S., with a total of 15.64 million prepaid subscribers on the network. That's dramatically past the other big rivals AT&T and Verizon also, who have 11.34 and 6.04 million prepaid...

Verizon has held its stance that only postpaid customers should receive LTE data on its network, but starting this month that may be ready to change. According to a source of Droid-Life, Verizon is set to add LTE data access to its prepaid ALLSET plan on July 17th to better compete with the...

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